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Carowinds is a 407-acre (165 ha) amusement park primarily located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation , the park first opened to the public on March 31, 1973.
On August 15, 1991, Carowinds announced that a new stand-up roller coaster would be added to the park in 1992 called Vortex. [3] It was the first coaster built at Carowinds since Carolina Cyclone in 1980, and also became the park's most expensive ride to date at $5.5 million. [3]
Afterburn is an inverted roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina.After more than two years of planning and construction, the roller coaster opened on March 20, 1999.
On August 27, 2015, Carowinds announced that Boomerang Bay would undergo a major expansion in 2016 and would be renamed Carolina Harbor. The expansion includes a new wave pool named Surf Club Harbor , 2 children splash areas named Myrtle Turtle Beach and Kitty Hawk Cove , a six-story, six-slide complex named Blackbeard's Revenge , [ 3 ] and a ...
Thunder Striker, formerly known as Intimidator, is a hypercoaster located at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and located in the Thunder Road section of the park, the ride opened to public on March 27, 2010. It features a 232-foot (71 m) lift hill, a top speed of 75 mph (121 km/h), and a track ...
Thunder Road was a wooden roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park on the border between Fort Mill, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. [1] Opened in 1976 and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, the racing roller coaster cost $1.6 million to construct and featured two identical tracks that paralleled each other.
Hurler is a wooden roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina.A second identical installation of the ride was also built at Kings Dominion, and both locations opened to the public in 1994.
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